Nailing device



This first operation partially drives the nails as seen in F ig.Y 3, Where the nails are driven about half Way and atleast suiiiciently far to hold them in place in the article. second nailingoperation. i Y,

After said first nailing operation, the press head 30 is elevated and the eccentric lever 2l is turned'from the position shown in Fig.' 3 to that shown in Fig. 2, which will enable the nail-holding frame to be removed.

The removed parts are then in the position shown in Fig. 1, the nails there appearing to be partially driven, so that the nailing paddle 33 is then placed upon the nails and V in the second opera-tion of the press or nail driving means, the nails may be completely driven, as shown in Fig. 5. In that figure, the long .nails i8 are shown as going through and turning back andclinching the material Within the case, While the short nails'lL are shown in the handle of the frame. This knails oneside of a metal case broom -as ,.vidual nails into such an article so that they enter hapliazard and in different places and positions in different brooms and often not centrally of the handle.4 Furthermore, this holder with the three plates, especially with plates l0 and 13, serves to rather effectively guide the nails during the driving operation and this Will tend to prevent them from going crooked as has been one of the troubles in nailing metalv case brooms heretolfore. rlhis enables one to drive a full setV of nails on one side of the article or broom at one operation and sin'iultaneously instead l of the method heretofore employed in driving nails singlyinto metal case brooms.V

This also enables a plurality of nails to be effectively held in place and manipulated after being locked and turned from one position to another, as shown, Without any escape or displacement.

The nail holes 17 are of different dimensions' to suit classes of nails of different sizes, such as 18 and 18a, so that the locking plate Will simultaneously and equally engage all of the Vnails at Vthe same time and lock them. But sometimes the nails of the same class may vary to some extent and then the largest nail in such class Will control the locking` operationl and the smaller nails; areV for the imams' liable not to be held tight.y In order to avoid any escape or displacement of such nails and to aidninholding the nails in the frame, the hammer or 'press plate 16 is preferably magnetized or made of magnetic metal so that it will magnetically hold the nails in placeV in theV frame.

TWhat is shown herein is deemedthe preferable construction of this invention, al-

erably be yas thick as the portion of the nail holder through which the ynails had eX- tended.

' The invention claimed is:

l. .A manually-controlled frame for holdingnails to be driven, having a pair of parallel plates secured together and spaced apart, a slidable plate between said pair of plates, said three plates having a plurality of series of nail holes Vregistering with each other to receive the headed ends of the nails Wheninverted and leave the points of the nails projecting` beyond said frame, and means in said frame for manually moving said slidable plate for temporarily holding the nails in the frame While being partially driven and for thereafter releasing the nails sof that the frame may be'removcd'therefrom.

2. A frame for holding `nails to be driven substantially'as set forth in claim l, and one of said plates being extended to form a handle for the frame.

3. 'frame for holding nails to be driven substantially as setforth in claim l, anda handle for said frame, the means for moving and holding said 'lidable plate being mounted in said handle.

p t. A. frame for holding nails to be driven substantially as set foith in claim l, and a handle for said frame, the means for actuating said slidable plate comprising lan eccentric in said handle, and a lever mounted in said handle and secured to said eccentric for operating the eccentric, substantially as set forth.. Y

5. A frame for holding nails to be driven substantially as set forth in claim l, and a hammer plate secured upon one of saidfirsti n'ientioned pair of plates, substantially as set forth.

ln Witness whereof, l have hereunto affixed my signature.

JAMES R. SVARTZ.

rlhe hammer or press plate 16V 

